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The UK government's design principles and examples of how they've been used.
Understand how preventative design measures can reduce the risk of harms happening on your online platform.
Provides advice on the key points to take into account on design.
The team capabilities available on the Digital Outcomes framework.
Descriptions of team capabilities on the Digital Outcomes and Specialists framework.
Register a design - what designs are protected, search the registers, prepare your illustrations, how to apply, disclaimers and limitations.
How to test your service for different browsers and devices: user needs, verified browsers, adapting to change.
A selection of design codes, chosen by the advisory board to the Office for Place, that demonstrate good practice.
CMA provisionally finds Adobe’s deal to buy Figma would likely harm innovation for software used by the vast majority of UK digital designers.
Introduction to content design.
View designs registered in the designs journal from the last 25 years
Find registered designs in the UK
The duties and competence requirements for building regulations that clients, designers and contractors must meet.
Supporting your team to make accessible services. Using semantic HTML, CSS, JavaScript and WAI-ARIA to make accessible interfaces.
Find the best guidance and tools to meet the accessibility regulations.
The shape and the configuration of objects are automatically protected by design right in the UK and Europe.
Guidance on creating design codes that promote the creation of successful places as set out in the National Model Design Code.
This is collated guidance from government websites and independent bodies to help you follow the technology code of practice.
Guidance relating to the protection, managing and enforcing of a registered design. Registered designs protect the appearance, shape or decoration of a product.
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